Barb Calfee:  

I always wanted to be a CPA when I grew up. My family and friends thought that was a NUTTY idea. As it turns out, they were RIGHT. If I won $100 million, I'd give MOST of it to the American Humane Society, then spend the rest on my Mother, a new home and furthering my forensic art education. To be truly happy, I'd be living in Asheville NC (the fourth largest art center in the U.S.), spending 1/2 of my time in my studio art loft and the other 1/2 in bed with the man of my dreams! My current age is 51. When I was 12, I thought that people my age now would be wise and filled with common sense. I was so completely wrong. My best friend would tell you I'm absolutely hysterical, quite psychic and incredibly outgoing, but people who don't know me very well would probably describe me as on the shy side. After having a career which demanded suits and formal business attire, I now LOVE altered cotoure - you know the type - a pair of jeans suddenly becomes a hot mini-skirt, a T-shirt just isn't right until the neckline is completely redone and the body is painted or stamped with fabric paint and the shoes MUST be either painted or collaged. I make all of my own gemstone jewelry - at least those few pieces that people don't beg to buy right off my body! I was a pubic speaker for over 20 years and by FAR the weirdest audience I ever spoke to was an international group gathered in British Columbia. Several months before this happened, I had returned from a 5-day business trip and my administrative assistant informed me that he had booked a speaking engagement for the International Convention of the National Association for Pre-Embryionic Storage. I listened, waiting patiently for the punchline - but it never came. So I said, "Whoa, David, what were you thinking? How in the name of anything holy am I going to be able to keep a straight fa...Expand for more